Michael N. Castle Quotes

I'm really proud of what we are building at the University of Houston, and hope I spend the rest of my career here.

I think that for me, as a UNC graduate, I value my education - I think everyone who's gone to that university values education.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would have been remotely as stellar.

It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education.

Michigan is a proud university.

My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.

The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.

I think you can find a good, happy balance between being a great research university as Rutgers is and being a high-quality sports program.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

The most important thing for me is education, and my family were really supportive in making sure I did the best I could.

When I went to college, I got an engineering degree and a full scholarship.

I have a long connection with Kent and Canterbury and I hope to help other young men and women to achieve their ambitions through a wonderful university experience.

I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

I had full rank scholarship to the University of Michigan, which anybody in the north will tell you, I don't know anyone that has had that at the University of Michigan, which tells you that I was a stand up student.

I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.

I did graduate early and even received my master's degree in political science before I turned 22.

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

Because I did well at the prep school, I got to have more options as some different universities gave me offers.

I passed the 11-plus and went up to the senior school, where my two older sisters had already gone. I was in the 'A' stream, but in the third year, they asked me to give up Latin; no one had ever got 7 per cent before.

Getting a degree from Duke University is an amazing accomplishment for me.